Operation Torch/Bibliography

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A list of key readings about Operation Torch.
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  • Atkinson, Rick. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (2003), 681pp; Pulitzer Prize; unusually well written narrative excerpt and text search
  • Bechthold, Michael. "A Question of Success: Tactical Air Doctrine and Practice in North Africa, 1942-43," The Journal of Military History, Vol. 68, No. 3 (Jul., 2004), pp. 821-85 in JSTOR
  • Blumenson, Martin, "Kasserine Pass," in Charles Heller and William A. Stofft, eds. America's First Battles, 1776-1965 (1986) pp 226-265
  • Breuer, William B. Operation Torch: The Allied Gamble to Invade North Africa. (1988). well-written popular history
  • Calhoun, Mark T. Defeat at Kasserine: American Armor Doctrine, Training, and Battle Command in Northwest Africa, World War II. (Fort Leavenworth, KS: Army Command and General Staff College, 2003).
  • Center for Military History. Egypt-Libya online edition
  • Craven, Wesley F., and James L. Cate. The Army Air Forces in World War II. (1983). v. 2, pp. 3-206, the official Air Force history online edition
  • D'Este, Carlo. Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life (2002), excerpt and text search
  • Funk, Arthur L. The Politics of TORCH: The Allied Landings and the Algiers Putsch, 1942. (1974) diplomatic history.
  • Gelb, Norman. Desperate Venture: The Story of Operation Torch, the Allied Invasion of North Africa. (1992). 352 pp. popular
  • Harding, Duncan. Operation Torch (2005)
  • Howe, George F. Northwest Africa: Seizing the initiative in the West (1957), highly detailed official Army history online edition
  • Levine, Alan J. The War Against Rommel’s Supply Lines, 1942-1943. (1999).
  • Kelly, Orr. Meeting the Fox: The Allied Invasion of Africa, from Operation Torch to Kasserine Pass to Victory in Tunisia (2002) excerpt and text search; also online edition
  • Meyer, Leo J. "The Decision to Invade North Africa (TORCH)," in Kent R. Greenfield, ed. Command Decisions. (1984) pp. 173-189)
  • Mitcham, Samuel W. Rommel's Desert War: The Life and Death of the Afrika Korps (2007) excerpt and text search
  • Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Two Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War. (1963). pp. 215-239
  • Porch, Donald. The Path to Victory: The Mediterranean Theater in World War II (2004) excerpt and text search
  • Walker, Ian. Iron Hulls Iron Hearts: Mussolini's Elite Armoured Divisions in North Africa (2006) excerpt and text search
  • Zaloga, Steven, and Michael Welply. Kasserine Pass 1943: Rommel's last victory (2005) excerpt and text search